C26 Auction

"He is indeed very smart!"

Li Yi sighed and said, "On the one hand, you have given us face and made us feel grateful. Now that we have money in our pockets, we'll have to bid for what we want later. This auction house will charge us 5% of the service fee! On the other hand, if our Wind Crystal Core is placed at the first auction, it can instantly create an atmosphere in the entire auction. Smart! "How smart!"

"Little Yi, look! Shopkeeper Wang is going up on stage. He is actually the auctioneer of this time's auction!"

Li Yi turned his head to look at the water mirror. Indeed, Manager Wang had walked up to the round auction platform. He cleared his throat and said: "Many thanks to everyone for coming to this auction. I am Wang Ba's land, and everyone is used to calling me Shopkeeper Wang. I will be hosting this auction."

"Pfft!" Zhao Zilong took a sip of the spiritual tea on the table and immediately sprayed it out, "Eighth brother? Isn't this bastard's little brother still a bastard? "Shopkeeper Wang is too funny. He gave you such a name!"

Li Yi could not help but laugh. It was not because Shopkeeper Wang's name was funny, but because of this brat, Zhao Zilong, how could he make such a connection?

Manager Wang continued, "There are many good things in this auction. I believe that you will not be disappointed. The first item to be auctioned will be next! "

As she finished, she clapped her hands. Immediately, a beautiful young girl in the prime of her youth, who wore revealing clothes, walked up the round stage gracefully with a jade plate in her hand.

"Gulp!"

An indecent voice suddenly sounded out in the VIP room.

Seeing Li Yi look over in surprise, Zhao Zilong laughed awkwardly and said, "Um, I'm drinking tea, my voice is too loud, hehe, hehe!"

Li Yi covered his face with his hands. His face was full of helplessness.

Shopkeeper Wang, who was standing on the round platform, took the tray from the young girl. From the tray, he took out a silver crystal core that had a light green hue and said, "This is a Wind Element crystal core." Compared to the beast cores, although the crystal cores do not contain enough spiritual energy, their effectiveness is far beyond the inner cores of demon beasts. "

"The crystal core contains pure spirit energy. It can be used to refine Xuan grade or higher magic treasures, allowing cultivators with similar spiritual roots to cultivate at a much faster rate. Most importantly, no one knows that when a crystal core breaks through to the Foundation Establishment stage, that will increase the chances of breaking through by 50%! "When the Core Formation stage is used to break through to the Nascent Soul stage, the probability of the breakthrough can also be increased by 10%!"

"What? The crystal core can increase the chances of a breakthrough?"

In the VIP room, Li Yi and Zhao Zilong looked at each other. Zhao Zilong murmured, "Xiao Yi, why do I feel like we are going to make a fortune this time?"

Li Yi nodded vigorously in agreement.

"Is that for real? The crystal core can increase the chances of breaking through? How come we've never heard of it before?"

Shopkeeper Wang's words instantly stirred up a commotion in the entire auction house. The audience immediately broke out into a flurry of discussion.

"Of course it's true. It was discovered by our Qingfeng Valley's Valley Master, Daoist Qingfeng. It has already been verified." Fellow daoists, please be at ease. Our bank will definitely not exaggerate the effects of any auction item. Everyone is already clear on the effects of a crystal core. Furthermore, this is a wind type crystal core. This is extremely rare. Fellow cultivators who practice wind type cultivation techniques must make full use of it. "

"The starting price is 10,000 Medial Grade Spirit Stones. Each increment must be at least a thousand Medial Grade Spirit Stones. Fellow Daoists, please be generous and don't miss a chance."

"Twelve thousand!"

"13,000!"

"Fifteen thousand!"

"I bid 20,000, this crystal is mine!"

"Twenty thousand and you still have the nerve to boast? I bid twenty-five thousand!"

"Thirty thousand!"

The entire auction ground was filled with shouts of bids from both sides. It was extremely bustling.

"Little Yi, I suddenly realized that we are two paupers! "Look at these people. They already sold tens of thousands of Medial Grade Spirit Stones. Tsk tsk!"

Looking at the fiery scene in the water mirror, Zhao Zilong suddenly let out a sigh.

"Anyone that can enter the auction house is a rich person, we don't need to be so self-deprecating, we are about to become rich too!" Besides, when we reach the Foundation Establishment stage, we will definitely be richer than them! Wealth will always be directly proportional to strength! "

Li Yi was relatively calm, but even though he said so, his slightly trembling hands still revealed the waves in his heart.

The bidding continued to rise as the bid reached 80,000 spirit stones. However, the speed of the increase slowed down. After all, there were still more items to be auctioned. If he used up all his spirit stones, he might regret it.

"Two thousand high-grade spirit stones!"

A sinister voice suddenly sounded from the VIP room next to Li Yi and Zhao Zilong.

The whole auction hall suddenly quieted down as everyone stared at the VIP room that was bidding.

Two thousand high-grade spirit stones for a single Wind Crystal Core. Although this price couldn't be considered expensive, it was definitely not cheap!

"Who is this? Why is he so rich and imposing? Raising the price to two thousand high-grade spirit stones in an instant is equivalent to two hundred thousand mid-grade spirit stones. Moreover, it's priceless!"

"Shh!" Quiet down, you're courting death, didn't you recognize the voice just now? "That's the Spirit Severing Eccentric Feng!"

"What, it's him?" Why would this old monster come to such a small auction? "

"Who knows? "However, I heard that Old Freak Feng has a nephew who is currently breaking through the Core Formation stage. I estimate that this wind attributed crystal core is for him to buy."

"..."

"Xiao Yi, two thousand high-grade spirit stones. Am I hearing things?" In the VIP room, Zhao Zilong's mouth was wide open so that an egg could fit inside.

"You didn't hear wrong, it's indeed two thousand high-grade spirit stones. Zi Long, we're rich!"

Even Li Yi couldn't calm down in the face of such a huge amount of wealth. After all, they were still just little rookies in the Qi Cultivating Stage. Previously, they had sold so many materials for a large amount of high-grade spirit stones, let alone two thousand high-grade spirit stones!

Manager Wang was also a bit surprised. According to his estimation, this Wind Attribute Crystal Core could only be auctioned for 100,000 mid-grade spirit stones at most, which was equivalent to a thousand high-grade spirit stones.

However, Old Freak Feng was bidding, so it was reasonable. His nephew was currently trying to break through the bottleneck to the Core Formation stage. The Wind Crystal Core was exactly what he needed the most to increase his chances of breaking through.

Li Yi and Zhao Zilong had made it in time!

Shopkeeper Wang sighed in his heart. He symbolically asked no one to increase the bid twice, and then with a wave of his hand, he gave the wind crystal core back to the young woman who was holding the plate. She took the jade plate and slowly walked away, disappearing from everyone's line of sight.

With Daoist Qingfeng's contacts and Qingfeng Valley's strength, as well as the fact that Li Yi and Zhao Zilong did not intentionally conceal their identities, the matter of them being the disciples of the Misty Pavilion's Great Elder, Zhou Tong, was already settled within two days.

In the early days, Daoist Qingfeng and Zhou Tong were very good friends. However, after Zhou Tong became the Great Elder of the Misty Pavilion, he could not casually leave the Misty Pavilion, and Daoist Qingfeng also had to take care of Qingfeng Valley.

Naturally, Daoist Clearwind viewed his old friend's disciple in a different light. The divine intent of a Heavenly Tribulation expert was extremely powerful. There was not even the slightest movement in the Qingfeng Valley that could be concealed from him. The fact that Li Yi could absorb the spiritual energy was something that Daoist Qingfeng already knew a long time ago.

The reason why there were no movements was mainly because of Zhou Tong. Unfortunately, he did not have the Dark Spirit Root's constitution, and the Dark Spirit Qi was too aggressive, so he did not have any good ideas. He could only build a house in the inner valley and set up a formation to isolate the harm the Dark Spirit Qi would do to the people in the valley.

Daoist Qingfeng clearly saw Li Yi taking away the Dark Spirit Bead through his Spiritual Sense. If someone else took away the pearl like the Dark Spirit Bead, even if he accidentally solved the problem of the Yin Qi in Qingfeng Valley, Daoist Qingfeng would not be so indifferent and definitely have to pay a price.

However, the person who took the Dark Spirit Bead was a personal disciple of his old friend Zhou Tong. Daoist Qingfeng was also happy to see this success, so he turned a blind eye to it.

As the shopkeeper of the [Myriad Treasures Pavilion], Shopkeeper Wang was Daoist Clearwind's trusted aide. He knew about this matter and could only sigh at Li Yi's deep fortune.

Of course, Li Yi didn't know about these things. At the moment, he and Zhao Zilong were watching with great interest as the items were brought up for auction and sold.

Compared to the wind-type crystal core, the following items were a bit plain and ruthless. They were basically pills and magic treasures used by Foundation Establishment and Core Formation cultivators. The transaction price varied from several tens to several thousand mid-grade spirit stones.

Zhao Zilong walked the path of a martial cultivator. Although Li Yi was exploring his own path of cultivation, [Primal Chaos Formula] focused on the body and did not rely much on external objects. The two of them believed that unless it was a very good magic treasure, ordinary things would not catch their eyes.

Time flew by, and the auction was nearing its end. During this time, Li Yi and Li Jun had only made one bid: 500 mid-grade spirit stones for an undirected teleportation talisman. It could teleport people and objects within a two meter radius to a distance of 10,000 miles in the face of danger; it did not need to consume a person's mana, it could be considered a life-saving talisman.

"Next is the final item. It's a piece of news!"

Manager Wang coughed dryly, cleared his throat, and said.

"News, what kind of news would be the final item to be auctioned off?" Shopkeeper Wang couldn't be joking with everyone, right? "

"That's right, the value of information could be big or small. What kind of information can be used as the best item for auction? Shopkeeper Wang, please discuss it properly!"

Li Yi and Zhao Zilong's interest was piqued as well. The first news they heard was about the auction, and it was the finale of the auction. What news was so valuable?

"To be exact, it's not information, but rather, qualifications!"

Manager Wang raised his hand and a young girl came forward with a jade plate. Inside the plate, ten jade slips with identical patterns were neatly stacked on top of each other.

What did that mean?